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Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved. Noble, even. That ought to count for something.
When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it’s not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.
Sometimes I wondered if I was seeing the same things through my eyes that the rest of the world was seeing through theirs. Maybe there was a glitch in my brain.
When I came here as a child, he would always remove the bullets as soon as he walked in the door. I guess he considered me old enough now not to shoot myself by accident, and not depressed enough to shoot myself on purpose.
Mike skipped quickly to my side and picked up my books for me. I imagined him with a wagging tail.
I drove very slowly, though, not wanting to carve a path of destruction through Main Street.
Naturally, the ambulance got a police escort to the county hospital. I felt ridiculous the whole time they were unloading me. What made it worse was that Edward simply glided through the hospital doors under his own power.
“Well…” He paused, and then the rest of the words followed in a rush. “I decided as long as I was going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly.”
the chokehold this had on me
“Yes,” I whispered. Just let me get out of here, I thought. I’ll crawl.
“I thought Newton was dragging your dead body off to bury it in the woods.”
“Let’s you and I not push poor Mike any further this week. We don’t want him to snap.” His eyes danced; he was enjoying the idea more than he should. “Mike-schmike,” I muttered, preoccupied by the way he’d said “you and I.” I liked it more than I should.
Stupid, unreliable vampire, I thought to myself.
I could see from their staggered expressions that he had never unleashed his talents on them before.
You are a magnet for trouble. If there is anything dangerous within a ten-mile radius, it will invariably find you.”
“It was very… hard—you can’t imagine how hard—for me to simply take you away, and leave them… alive.” His voice was muffled by his arm. “I could have let you go with Jessica and Angela, but I was afraid if you left me alone, I would go looking for them,” he admitted in a whisper.
About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was part of him—and I didn’t know how potent that part might be—that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.
“I’m absolutely ordinary—well, except for bad things like all the near-death experiences and being so clumsy that I’m almost disabled.
i laughed OUT LOUD😭😭 so out of pocket
“Just let me go, Charlie.” I repeated my mother’s last words as she’d walked out this same door so many years ago. I said them as angrily as I could manage, and I threw the door open. “It didn’t work out, okay? I really, really hate Forks!”
this never hurts less
